OPNsense pros and cons

The most valuable features in OPNsense are reporting and visibility.

The most valuable features are reporting, the Sensei plugin, and firewall capabilities.

The VPN server feature is the most valuable. It is integrated with Radius and AAA for doing accounting and authentication. Insight view is also an important feature for me at this time. It allows me to assess our network traffic. I also like the firewall feature. The BSD kernel has a packet filter. It is one of the most solid frameworks for firewalls. Its user interface is one of the best interfaces I have used.

The solution is good for a basic firewall for a small business or for home use.

OPNsense is easy to scale when running on the hardware.

The initial implementation process is simple.

The graphic user interface is very good and it is user-friendly which makes the product easy-to-use.

We have found pretty much all the features of the solution to be valuable.

I have found the solution has some great features overall, such as guest access capabilities, dashboards, and ease of use. There is plenty of documentation and support and it has the plugins that I needed.

The interface and the dashboard are the most valuable features of this solution.

There are issues with stability and reliability.

I would like to see better SD-WAN performance.

The only thing that I would like to see improved is the Insight or the NetFlow analysis part. It would be good to have the possibility to dig down on the Insight platform. Right now, we can easily do only a few analyses. If this page becomes more powerful, it surely will be a well-adopted platform.

The solution would not be suitable for anything large-scale.

The interface needs to be simplified. It is not user-friendly.

While they do have paid options that actually gives better features, for most of the clients, if they tend to take a paid option will instead opt for Fortinet.

The ability to set the VPN IP address would be a welcome addition.

The solution could be more secure.

The logging could improve in OPNsense.

There should be more technical documentation.